Background
He was born in New York City, one of six children of Albert Elsberg, a merchant and stagecoach operator, and Rebecca (Moses) Elsberg. Nathaniel Elsberg, Charles's paternal grandfather, came from Germany to New York City in 1848.
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professor neurological surgeon
He was born in New York City, one of six children of Albert Elsberg, a merchant and stagecoach operator, and Rebecca (Moses) Elsberg. Nathaniel Elsberg, Charles's paternal grandfather, came from Germany to New York City in 1848.
Charles's education, from the primary grades through medical school, was obtained in New York.
In 1890, having graduated from the City College of New York with a B. A. degree and a Phi Beta Kappa key, he entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, from which he received the M. D. degree three years later.
In 1895-1896 he studied under Dr. Johann von Mikulicz-Radecki in Breslau, where he developed the habit of resolving his clinical problems in the laboratory.
In 1909 the Neurological Institute of New York was established through the efforts of Drs. Joseph Collins and Joseph Fraenkel, who, in turn, invited Dr. Pearce Bailey and Elsberg to join them.
The institute, one of the first of its kind in the United States, was devoted to the study and treatment of diseases of the nervous system.
He completed internships at Mount Sinai and Sloane hospitals in New York and, in turn, became assistant pathologist at Mount Sinai in 1895.
Upon his return from Europe, he continued to work in surgical pathology while serving on the surgical staff at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was adjunct surgeon in 1900, was made associate surgeon in 1911, and served as attending surgeon from 1914-1929.
Collins, Fraenkel, and Bailey were designated "physicians" and Elsberg "attending surgeon. "
Five years before the institute opened, Elsberg had published his first paper on neurological surgery, which described two cases of tumor of the cerebellopontine angle.
By the time the institute was established, he had practically ceased handling general surgical cases, confining his attention to neurological surgery, especially that relating to diseases of the spinal cord.
Elsberg's writings reflected a clear, graceful style.
During his last six years at the institute, he edited the Bulletin of the Neurological Institute of New York.
About 200 medical officers underwent instruction that included five courses of ten weeks each.
Realizing that certain brain tumors affect the olfactory sense, he found that if one held his breath and an odor was then injected directly into the olfactory nerve, the varying effects on normal and diseased persons could be measured.
He died at the age of seventy-six of coronary heart disease.
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Although Elsberg was reared as a Jew, he had held no ties with Judaism during his adult life, and in 1945 he converted to Roman Catholicism.
On October 3, 1937, Elsberg, then sixty-six, married Jane Stewart, the daughter of a Pittsburgh surgeon, and subsequently they moved to Stamford, Connecticut.